So over the years I’ve had my share of “meltdowns” or failures in BizTalk. I pretty much feel like I’ve seen them all, and I would like to contribute some of the errors and solution to this problems, call it a teaser since there is a lot, this will be the first post in a Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

I have just been looking at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2012/08/29/getting-started-with-biztalk-server-2010-r2-ctp-in-windows-azure-virtual-machines.aspx to understand some of the new features. I am not going to wax on about any of the new features here because other people are already doing a good job at this (See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2011/12/08/biztalk-server-2010-r2.aspx) but I want to highlight how refreshing it is to preview...

When choosing a color in the properties window in visual studio, there is the possibility to choose from so called System Colors. An example for this is the color 'Window', which is the default for a textbox. Now, I tried to set the BackColor of a Textbox programmatically back to this system color 'Window'. Turned out not to be as easy as I thought it would be. I tried things like Color.? ... I hoped to find the color in this namespace, or even a System subsection for the systemcolors...

Welcome to the 42nd interview in my series of talks with thought leaders in the “connected systems” space. This month, we have Shan McArthur who is the Vice President of Technology for software company Adxstudio, a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM, blogger and Windows Azure enthusiast. You can find him on Twitter as @Shan_McArthur. Q: [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

We are exited to announce the immediate availability of BizTalk360 version 5.0 BETA . This is one of the comprehensive release for BizTalk360 with the following set of new capabilities, enhancements, performance improvements and bug fixes. The development for this release is frozen and we dedicated the whole of September for regression testing, bug fixes and minor usability improvements. For time being we got bullet list of features that's coming in 5.0, over the month of September we will put...

This week I ran into the most bizarrely annoying problem, and I found that there was very little information available to guide me. I had a solution that included a BizTalk WCF-NetMsmq receive location for which I had published metadata as well. However, every time I tried to generate proxy code, either using Visual Studio’s [...] Blog Post by: Johann

One of my colleagues was getting the error. Activation context generation failed for "…". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.6195" could not be found. We thought installing Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable package on machine should resolve this problem so we installed the following packages

If you have been wondering how to create a Biztalk VM on Azure, there is a very good article recently posted on The BizTalk Server Team Blog. Check it out here. This post will walk you through the steps involved to create a virtual machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (CTP) in the cloud. Blog Post by: DipeshA

I recently ran into an interesting one while building some InfoPath forms for SP2010/2013 forms services. I wanted to return some Rich Text (XHTML) fields back from a WCF WebService call. I was at the point as a developer, where I couldn’t even say ‘ Works on my machine… ’. The problem was – no matter what I tried, I would always have *plain text* and no ‘richness’ of the Rich Text. Didn’t work for me. So I have: 1) a basic WCF Web service – running on my dev environment. 2) an InfoPath Form that...

To get started, you need access to a Windows Azure subscription. If you don’t have one already, you can sign up for Windows Azure 90-day free trial here . Create a Virtual Machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP To use this feature and other new Windows Azure capabilities, login to your account and sign up to use the preview features . It's easy to create a virtual machine that is running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (CTP) when you use the Image Gallery in the Windows Azure Management Portal...

Today we are releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 R2 to a limited number of our Technology Adoption Program (TAP) customers. We are also making the CTP available for preview to all customers as a predefined image in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine. BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s premier Integration and B2B communications server that enables organizations to connect disparate systems and business processes together. In this CTP release, we provide a...

It’s been nearly three months since I switched gears and left enterprise IT for the rough and tumble world of software startups and cloud computing. What are some of the biggest things that I’ve observed since joining Tier 3 in June? Having a technology-oriented peer group is awesome. Even though we’re a relatively small company, [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Published by: Bill Chesnut Please Note: More Details will be available soon on the BizTalk Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/ From the title I should have peeked your interest, yes the BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP has been released in Azure VM gallery as a Platform Image So lets go through the process of creating an BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP Azure VM First you will need an Azure Account and you will need to enable the Azure VM preview feature and be using the new Azure Portal Click the NEW...

Posted By: Bill Chesnut There have been several previous blog posts by several different authors about BAM Archiving, I decided that it would be good if all of the information was in one article, so here I go. To start off I have used information from Richard Seroter’s Blog post BizTalk BAM Data Archiving Explained which gives a good description of the BAM Archiving structure. What I found though was there was not any really good material on what I need to do to make the BAM archiving happen. I started...

Two months ago I published on CodePlex and at Microsoft Code Gallery the pipeline component “Multi-part Message Attachments Zipper Pipeline Component” for BizTalk Server2010. This time I decided to make available a version of this component for previous version of BizTalk Server. The BizTalk Multi-Part Message Attachments Zipper is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

The Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) will running “Cloud-Burst 2012”, a two-day Windows Azure conference hosted at the Microsoft offices in Akalla, near Stockholm on the 27 th and 28 th September, with an Azure Hands-on Labs Day at AddSkills on the 29...

I have seen a lot of people confused with the SOAP Action Headers section in WCF Send ports. Their purpose isn’t obvious to those who don’t fully understand BizTalk implementation of WCF, or of the WCF based LOB Adapters. In this post I will try to explain what the SOAP Action Headers section is used [...] Blog Post by: Johann

One of the principal needs for BizTalk Administrators is the ability to monitor the health of BizTalk environments and react promptly to possible problems, you can accomplished this by using certain tools such as: BizTalk Administration Console: is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) that you can use to manage and monitor BizTalk Server, and that [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I’ve spent the last few months working on a new course for the folks at Pluralsight, and I’m pleased to say that it’s now up and available for viewing. I’ve been working with the Force.com platform for a few years now, and jumped at the chance to build full course about it. Force.com for Developers [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

This coming Tuesday I will make my debut as a speaker at BUGS (BizTalk User Group Sweden) and some wanted to know what I will try to cover in my Tips and Tricks session. Here are some: Trace och Trace using BAM-tracking Recoverable interchange Ordered delivery and WS-anrop “Copy name” in map Separated list in a map Datatypes and imports in schemas ”Copy” in filemask Debatching using xml Rename files while reading Autentication-tab in the FILE-adapter Negative service Window Debugging pipeline components...